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    To Go Down a Storm

    Jun 01, 2018 4 minutes
    by Brad Tyer

    . ¶ BRANTLEY Hargrove doesn’t write a single sentence so crassly clichéd in (He also doesn’t once describe a tornado as sounding “like a train,” for which he richly deserves writerly admiration.) ¶ But he doesn’t have to. A famous tornado chaser finally caught one, and it killed him. If you’ve read the book’s title and consider this a spoiler, sorry. ¶ But even if Hargrove doesn’t say so, it’s hard not to pause and wonder at the weirdly specific symmetry of a life that ends in the very pursuit that animated it. The tragedy and majesty of that. It was

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